Tourism research and theories: a review

This chapter sets out to review 20^th century tourism research and theories and to consider their relevance, including new directions, for the tourism industry in the 21^st century. The chapter is mostly concerned with the latter, directions for the future, and it comes in the form of five observations about tourism research, together with a series of lessons for research doers, or producers, and research users, or consumers, which correspond with these five observations. But before these observations and lessons for the 21^st century, I provide a brief overview of the growth of research in tourism.